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acs42
Copper Contributor
Dec 02, 2017

Draw tools are greyed out

I enabled the draw tools tab for my PC Excel 2016, but the tools are all greyed out.
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Adrian Long
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Jun 24, 2020

jcraok , same thing with me too. I changed the document view to "page layout" and got my pens back! 

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jprugh
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Aug 04, 2020

Adrian Long i was able to draw in excel but saving the doc does not retain the drawing.  any suggestions?

 

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    Alte_M
    Copper Contributor
    Aug 04, 2020

    jprugh  In my Excel for Mac v16.39, I can use the pens to draw, save the doc, and the drawing is retained.   Tried this by drawing across cells and drawing over a chart I inserted, and in both cases the drawing was retained.  So, can't help. Sorry.

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    Adrian Long
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    Aug 04, 2020

    Unfortunately, I don't have any suggestions, jprugh. I'm not sure if I've experienced that.